Tangles with, in the country

• Fights with, in the hills
• Scraps in the sticks
• Grapples with, as a critter
• Gets down and dirty with
• Struggles with, as a varmint
• Struggles with, as a critter
• Fights in the sticks
• Grapples, in the sticks

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-third-person singular of: rassle)